Absolutely. In fact, I'm very interested in patient input as to what their actual needs are. We recently conducted focus groups and studies and we're about to publish a paper on what patients' perceptions of their needs are, as opposed to what we, as doctors and professionals, perceive as their problems.
I have taken care of people with Parkinson's for many years, and I do my best to be open and sensitive to their issues, yet I was really surprised, as the moderator of these focus groups, what their issues were. Issues one to eight had absolutely nothing to do with their actual medications or their symptoms of Parkinson's. It had to do with their mental health. It had to do with their relationships with their partners and with their families. It had to do with their perception of being an ill person. It had to do with their financial situation and their concerns for the future and planning for the future and for their children.
It was really sobering and interesting to find out what really is on the forefront of people's minds and what we have to give them. It's not enough to give them medicine, that's not enough. It's not enough to just treat symptoms. There are so many. You can't break down a person into how they move, into how they think, and into how they feel. It's all part of one continuum. Those are the issues that are pressing for people, and we have to think about that in terms of resource allocation as well as--